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[TSL] Interest: RULES FOR PASSENGERS on SS GREAT BRITAIN
ablyth <ablyth@xtra.co.nz> on 08/12/1998

This posting is with the permission of the LISTOWNER :-)
It is an inclusion to an Article published in the "Falkland Island
Journal 1976" , written by Gerald Roberts. It doesn't appear to be a
facsimile, rather a transcription. And I wonder if the heading for
VENTILATION really did include the Sunday / Religion bit in the
original? :-))
Cheers,
Anne.

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SS GREAT BRITAIN
RULES FOR PASSENGERS

MEALS & BEDTIME
1. Every Passenger to rise at 7 a.m. unless otherwise permitted by
the SURGEON.
2. Breakfast from 8 to 9 a.m. Dinner at 1 p.m. Supper at p.m.
3. The passengers to be in their beds by 10 p.m.
FIRES & LIGHTS
4. Fires to be lighted by the Passenger's Cook at 7 a.m. and kept
alight by him till 7 p.m. then to be extinguished, unless
otherwise directed by the MASTER, or required for the use of the
sick.
5. Three Safety Lamps to be lit at dusk; one to be kept burning all
night an the main hatchway, the two others may be extinguished
at 10 p.m.
6. No naked lights allowed at any time, or on any account.
CLEANING BERTHS
7. The Passengers, when dressed, to roll up their beds, to sweep
the decks, (including the space under the bottom of the berths)
& to throw the dirt overboard.
8. Breakfast not to commence till this is done.
9. The sweepers for the day to be taken in rotation from the males
above 14, in the proportion of five for every one hundred
passengers.
10. Duties of the sweepers to be to clean the Ladders, Hospital &
Dining Rooms, to sweep after every meal, & to dryholystone and
scrape them after breakfast.
11. But the occupant of each berth to see his own berth is well
brushed out; and single women are to keep their own compartment
clean.
12. The beds to be well shaken and aired on deck.
13. Mondays and Tuesdays are appointed as washing days, but no
clothes are to be washed or dried between decks.
14. The Coppers & Cooking Vessels to be cleaned every day.
VENTILATION
15. The Scuttles & Stern Ports to be kept open (weather permitting)
from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. anf the hatches at all times.
16. On Sunday the Passengers to muster at 10 a.m. when they will be
expected to appear in clean and decent apparel. The day to be
observed as religiously as circumstances will admit.
MISCELLANEOUS
17. No Spirits or Gunpowder to be brought on board by any Passenger.
Any that may be discovered will be taken into custody of the
Master till the expiration of the voyage.
18. No loose hay or straw allowed below.
19. All gambling, fighting, riotous behaviour or quarrelsome
behaviour, swearing, & violent language to be at once put a stop
to. Swords and other offensive weapons, as soon as the
passengers embark, to be placed in the custody of the Master.
20. No sailors to remain on the passenger deck among the passengers
except on duty.
21. No passenger to go to the Ship's Cookhouse without special
permission from the Master, nor to remain in the forcastle among
the sailors on any account.

BY ORDER OF THE MASTER

(Based uponan abstract of the QUEEN'S ORDER in COUNCIL of the 6th
October 1949 for preserving order and securing Cleanliness and
ventilation on board "Passenger Ships" precceding from the UNITED
KINGDOM to any of HER MAJESTY'S Possessions abroad.)
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